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Show AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK BYBERMANS CREW CIVEN FIVE MINUTES TO ABANDON VESSEL, ACCORDING TO FRENCH REPORT Captain of Destroyed Steamer Refusec) to Lower Colors and the Doomed Vessel Went Down Flying the Stars and Stripes. Paris. A censored wire.less messaga from Madrid announces the arrival at & port, the name of which was omitted from the dispatch, o the crew of the lAmeriean steamer Chemung, wnicli it it charged was sunk by a German submarine. sub-marine. The commander gave the crew only & few minutes to abandon the vessel, not allowing them even to take theit taoney and papers, says the message. The submarine towed the lifeboats in which the crew were placed to within with-in five miles of the coast, where it (abandoned them. The Chemung went down with the 6tars and stripes floating at her mast, vA lively incident preceded the sinking sink-ing of the vessel. The German commander com-mander gave orders that the American flag should be lowered and German sailors prepared to put them into effect. ef-fect. They met with stubborn resistance resist-ance on the part of the American captain, cap-tain, Duffy, and his crew, who refused re-fused to haul down the colors, saying ,that if the ship had to be sunk it would Ibe with the flag flying. ; Captain Duffy maintained his ground, and so rapidly were the preparations prep-arations to sink the Chemung made 'that further discussion about the flag ceased, and after the captain and crew had been taken aboard the submarine a torpedo and three shells sent against the side of the American ship put her jo the bottom. |